Nashville Scene30%
Behind the Scenes of the 70 mm IMAX Screenings of ‘The Odyssey’ 31%
By Logan Butts25%
8/4/2026, 3:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Optimism Bias, and Anecdotal, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 22.3% saturation with 103 hits. Analysis detected 707 faulty-reasoning hits from 462 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34% and a BS Rank of 31% (19,646 of 28,112 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 69.90% of the article peer group.
If you’ve had trouble securing a ticket to The Odyssey in IMAX, you’re not alone.
Regal Opry Mills is one of roughly 25 theaters in the U.S., and 41 worldwide, with the capability to show Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster epic the way it was meant to be seen: in IMAX 70 mm.
The Regal Opry Mills was the fifth-highest-grossing IMAX 70 mm theater in the country during The Odyssey’s $124 million opening weekend, bringing in the biggest haul outside of Los Angeles or New York City.
The theater has responded by booking showtimes as early as 7 a.m. and as late as 3 a.m.
(Or as early as 3 a.m., if you’re a nauseatingly early riser.)
But because shooting — and screening — movies on celluloid fell out of fashion for decades prior to its recent resurgence, 70 mm projectionists are hard to come by.
Regal Opry Mills had to fly in two specialists to run the projector in 12-hour shifts.
“There was a period there of a decade or two when film was kind of going by the wayside,” says projectionist Dean Fick.
“But now it’s coming back.”
Fick has run IMAX projectors at locales ranging from The Smithsonian to the amusement park Cedar Point.
Now the Ohio native has found his skills in demand thanks to the box office success of films like The Odyssey and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune series — so much so that he was “voluntarily” pulled out of retirement by Regal.
“It’s a great opportunity for me, because I get to come here and share my expertise that I’ve developed over the decades,” says Fick in the projection booth at the Regal Opry Mills prior to another nearly sold-out screening.
“Some people like boats, some people like trains.
… For reason of all the things I saw as a kid, film projection just clicked with me.”
It takes a skilled practitioner to keep the train running, so to speak.
With roughly six showtimes a day for the nearly three-hour movie, there hasn’t been a lot of time for Fick to explore Nashville.
“Maybe I’ll stay an extra week or so and look around, because it’s a really great town,” says Fick, who also served as the projectionist at the Regal Opry Mills for March’s IMAX 70 mm screenings of the charming Ryan Gosling space adventure Project Hail Mary.
“I love it here.”
Fick might have another opportunity to spend some time in Music City — the highly anticipated Dune: Part Three will begin screening in IMAX 70 mm in December.
He’s not sure yet whether he’ll be back in the projection booth at Opry Mills.
“We’ll see.
If I am invited, I will certainly come back.”
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